T. W. Hill

As printed in 1901

T. W. HILL.

Prominently identified with the mining interests of Jasper county,;\Iissouri, is T. '. Hill, an old and experienced workman, who is one-half owner and superintendent of the Mount Ararat mine, located on property belonging to Thomas Conners. This mine promises to yield a fine class of ore, and seven shafts have been sunk, a one-hundred-ton mill put in operation and the excavations have reached two hundred and forty-six feet, although only opened in Noveiuljer, 1899.

Mr. Hill comes of a family of ministers of the Methodist church, his father being Rev. John Hill, his grandfather. Rev. Joshua Hill, and his great-grandfather. Rev. Green Hill, all natives of the locality near Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Hill, of this review, was educated in Triune and attended the Springhill. Tennessee, Academy, where he Ijecame acquainted with the lady who later became his wife. She was Miss Ada V. Paschall, of Oxford, North Carolina, and was educated in Triune, Tennessee. A family of six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hill, and of these two daughters are married, and two daughters and one son are still at home.

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WILLIAM i:. HALL.

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William E. Hall, their son, spent his early boyhood days upon his father's

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OF lASPER COUNTY. 285 farm in Jasper county, and during that period attended a private school and later a district school, pursuing his studies through the winter months, while in the summer season he assisted in the labors of the farm. Owing to the death of his father the management and care of the farm devolved upon him as he was the eldest son. He assumed this heavy responsibility when only eighteen years of age, and well did he discharge his duties, giving evidence of the elemental strength of his character which has since been shown in the control of important and extensive business interests. At the age of eighteen years he cast his lot with the Confederate army, and served under Generals Shelby and Standwaite and later under General Cooper, being discharged in 1865 at the close of the war. He again went to Texas, where he resided with his mother until 1869. While living there he returned to his native county and was married to Margaret C. Glasscox, who died in Texas in April, 1870. In that year he returned to Jasper county, Missouri.

For some time Mr. Hall engaged in the stock industry, buying cattle in Texas and driving them north to Jasper county, where they were wintered. In this enterprise he was associated with Jnhn S. McBride, who was afterward elected sheriff of Jasper county. In the spring of 1871 Mr. Hall located near Webb City. On the 7th of May, 1871, Mr. Hall married, the lady being Miss Martha E. Webb, daughter of Jobn C. Webb, of Webb City, the discoverer of zinc and lead in that locality. He found those minerals upon his farm and became the pioneer miner in the industry which has brought millions of dollars into Jasper county. After his marriage ]\Mr. Hall took up his above upon a farm in Mineral township, adjoining the home, farm of his father-inlaw, who resided there until 1879. While living upon the farm Mr. Hall was elected township assessor, serving in the years 1874-5-6. In 1878 he was elected to the office of county collector, and the following year removed to Carthage to take charge of the office, which he creditably filled for tw(/ years. On the expiration of his term he became interested in mining and farming, and to his business affairs he devoted his energies with marked success. He is the owner of a fine farm of eight hundred acres under a high state of cultivation, and part of it is underlaid with zinc and lead ore. In 1883 he took up his aljode on the farm, remaining until 1889, when he again came to Carthage, from which place he manager his important and extensive business interests. His farm is well stocked with cattle and horses, and he has bred some of the finest trotters and saddle horses in the state. A man of resourceful ability, his efforts have been by no means confined to one line, and his sound judgment and enterprise have been important factors in the successful conduct of many enterprises. He was one of the organizers and is still a stockholder in the Central National Bank, and was one of a company of ten reliable and prominent citizens who organized and conducted the business of the Jasper County Street Railway until all of the stockholders sold out.

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As printed in The biographical record of Jasper County, Missouri (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.